Government won’t shut down (yet): Republicans and Democrats have come to an agreement on the budget, staving off that frightening government shut down.

Also not happening: Cutting 300 million dollars from Planned Parenthood. But don’t get too excited, because the agreement does cut abortion spending in D.C.

In Syria: Security forces opened fire on anti-government protesters, killing at least twenty people.

In Egypt: Security forces opened fire on protesters at Tahrir Square, who arrived by the tens of thousands on Friday.

In Olympia: Thousands of protesters marched on the capitol in response to proposed budget cuts.

This isn’t news, but it should be: An Arizona senator blatantly lies about Planned Parenthood spending on the Senate Floor, and there is a video.

In Santa Monica: Bomb technicians and detectives have determined that an explosion at a Santa Monica synagogue yesterday was caused by a homemade bomb.

But Comcast likes them so much! The House has voted to stop to the FCC’s net neutrality rules.

Thanks for bailing us out, you guys! Love, Iceland. Citizens of Iceland will vote on a new plan to pay off their debt to the UK and the Netherlands, incurred when their country went bankrupt in 2008.

Today, in things you might want to keep to yourself: A plurality of Mississippi Republicans want to outlaw interracial marriage.

Near Seattle U: Six men were robbed at gunpoint yesterday.

Well, almost none of that was good news. So here is a professional wrestler who spends his spare time being a feminist. (There is also a puppy.) Good morning!

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  2. Re: AZ Senator: If I were God, I would make everyone who speaks on the floor of the Senate wear a shock collar, and I would give Anthony Weiner the buzzer.

    (an interesting aside: When checking the spelling of “Weiner,” I typed Michael Weiner by mistake, and discovered that conservative writer Michael Savage was born Michael Weiner…huh.)

  3. Oh come now. How could you miss Sidney Lumet dying? (86, lymphoma.) Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, The Verdict, Network – these were some of the greatest movies of their time. For shame.

  4. Regarding Senator Jon Kyl, who raped his neighbor’s grandchildren when they were three, here’s what CNN’s Don Lemon reports:

    We did call his office trying to ask what he was talking about there. And I just want to give it you verbatim here. It says, ‘his remark was not intended to be a factual statement, but rather to illustrate that Planned Parenthood, a organization that receives millions of dollars in taxpayer funding, does subsidize abortions.’

    http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heat…

    By the way, Senator Jon Kyl raping his neighbor’s grandchildren is not intended to be a factual statement, but rather to illustrate that some men molest the grandchildren of neighbors.

  5. Your Iceland header is misleading – Iceland wasn’t bailed out, nor did they take out any loans. They’re being charged for overseas governments insuring their own citizens’ accounts with collapsed Iceland banks. Iceland took responsibility for their own citizens’ money, but ignored overseas people; certainly selfish, and a reasonable debt to pay off, but not any sort of bailout or loan.

    Also: Yay planned parenthood! Boo Arizona!

    AZ seems to be winning vs. Florida for least-pleasant US state.

  9. I know I shouldn’t be shocked anymore when Republicans lie.
    That’s all they do, after all. But the lack of outrage by other members of the Senate and the lack of retribution or condemnation does shock me. Sometimes I think the shock collar should go on the Dems. It seems hard to wake them the fuck up and get some anger going here. They are protecting lives when they protect Planned Parenthood and they should act like it.

  11. @9

    I think there was a press conference with Dems condemning the attacks on PPFA–followed by a response by Republican women that apparently didn’t go so well because they tried to avoid answering the sharp questioning. I think TPM covers it.

  12. RE: Kyl’s lies about Planned Parenthood,

    Doesn’t matter. Now that the teabaggers have heard it, it will circulate among them and become truth.

    Their entire existence is built on lies they desperately want to be true, so they’ll swallow this load with ease.

  15. 5280, thanks for the sad news, I guess. I don’t expect Morning News to catch everything – Lumet just died this morning.

    @1, the arrestees were aiming to get arrested, totally routine. Gregoire did them a favor by making clear they could get arrested by trying to storm her closed office, and by letting the Capitol cops do the catch and release when those few took her up on it. She’s a longtime Dem, she knows how it’s done.

    Hey, Canuck – good morning! Look out, there’s NaFun yelling at us to get off his lawn…

  16. Lummet’s best film was, without a doubt, Prince in the city or was it Prince of the city? Anyway, one of the best filmmakers ever, though, he will never be forgiven for making that piece of shit movie where Melanie Griffith plays a cop who falls in love with a hasidic Jew while investigating a murder in that community.

  17. Lumet’s last film from a few years ago, “Before the Devil Know’s You’re Dead” is my favorite. I’m a sucker for multiple viewpoints, time shifts, Marissa Tomei’s tits.

  18. @ 15, I agree, but it depends on who writes the post. If Schmader missed Lumet’s passing, that would have been surprising; but the news intern, who undoubtedly is young and may have never seen any of these movies, not so much.

  19. Matt, you remind me how Schmader once gave away the Morning News secret by posting it when he wrote it, the night before, rather than setting it to be automatically posted at some preset time the next morning while he was still sleeping it off…

  20. My “outrage” was somewhat feigned – I didn’t expect her to catch it either. Still, how do you expect to learn if you don’t get it between the eyes when you fuck up? Welcome to the real world.

  22. Ha, gus, in the syncronicity dept, this post popped up as Fri 8pm before it was corrected…is it possible these young interns are not getting up at the crack of dawn to scan Reuters?

  23. As long as we’re talking about news that was missed, how about Manny Ramirez retiring after flunking a second performance-enhancing drug test?

  24. If fiddling with vaginas is a good way to get cuts passed, I say fiddle away. To go after social security, medicare/aid we may well have to distract you by going after titties and vaginas.

    Folks obsessed about being able to do what they like with their genitals are, apparently, push overs.

  26. Ooh, good eye, Canuck. Michael, I wonder, since I don’t have a lawn, would he come do something one could euphemize as “mowing the lawn”? I must donate and see…

  28. Just for the record, Matt, I remarked on that yesterday in the thread about opening day. Which was kind of a joke anyway, because it wasn’t “opening day” (that was a week ago, and they didn’t post anything about that either).

    Naw, these people wouldn’t know news if it bit them on the ass. Even when it comes to things they care about, like drugs and homosexuality, they’re always a day late and a dollar short. I wonder how long it will be until they post the story about the gay caveman – which I e-mailed to them two days ago.

  29. Don’t feel bad, 5280, I don’t think I’ve ever had one of my most excellent slogtips see the light of day (except for the odd freaky video)…and yes, the gay caveman is cool, buried with his decorative pots!

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